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  • Canadian authorities have blocked William Ayers from entering their country to participate in an education conference, The Globe and Mail reported. Ayers, a one-time leader of the Weather Underground who is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was a target of Republican politicians last year as they tried to link him to Barack Obama. Ayers said he has entered Canada previously without incident, although he was once turned away. Jeffrey Kugler, executive director of the Centre for Urban Schooling at the University of Toronto, which invited Ayers, said that the authorities who turned Ayers away had violated academic freedom. "There is no one who could have thought it possible there was any danger to Canadians to letting him in,” Kugler told the Globe and Mail. Before Sarah Palin and others began talking about Ayers last year, his lectures on education reform were typically uneventful at campuses he visited. Now, however, conservative groups organize protests. When he spoke at Florida State University this month, College Republicans waved signs saying, among other things, "Hamas had a scheduling conflict," The Tallahassee Democrat reported. Next week, Ayers is scheduled to appear at St. Mary's College of California. Shortly after his visit was announced, protest plans were announced, featuring his mug shots from arrests in Weather Underground days.
  • Some links in academe between today's inaugural and the Rev. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.... Students from San Jose State University took an indirect van route from California to the inaugural ceremonies today. They first went to key sites of the civil rights movement to learn about them in person. The San Jose Mercury News reported that they visited the river where Emmett Till was murdered, the Birmingham church where a bomb killed four young girls, and the bridge near Selma where civil rights activists experienced the "Bloody Sunday" attacks.... Daan Braveman, president of Nazareth College, in Rochester, N.Y., is blogging about attending the inaugural this week and comparing it to his experience attending the King speech.
  • A research assistant at the University of California at Los Angeles died last week from injuries from a December laboratory fire, the Los Angeles Times reported. The research assistant was a 22-year-old woman whose name has not been made public.
  • College Media Advisers announced Monday that the group had censured Western Oregon University over its administrators' handling in 2007 of a controversy involving a student newspaper's use of private student data mistakenly made public in a security breach. After the Journal, the newspaper at Western Oregon, published an article about the security breach, campus officials rifled through the newspaper's offices and fired its adviser. After initially criticizing the university, the national advisers' group spent more than a year trying to negotiate an agreement under which outside experts would help Western Oregon administrators revamp their student publications policies. But after those discussions fell apart, leaving the group with no alternative but censure, College Media Advisers said in a letter to Western Oregon's president Monday. University officials did not respond to an e-mail message seeking comment.
  • A new professional organization -- the National Behavioral Intervention Team Association -- has been created to help school and college officials on threat assessment teams that analyze whether students pose a risk to themselves or others. Use of such teams has been recommended, post-Virginia Tech, as a way to identify students who need attention or services, or who may need to be asked to leave a campus.
  • The State University of New York Press is getting lots of buzz -- and good indications on sales -- for a new book Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady. The book consists of letters to Michelle Obama about the authors' feelings about her new role, American life for black women and other topics. The co-editors of the volume are Barbara A. Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram, who are also the co-founders of the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women, which is affiliated with the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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